Questions tagged [nature-of-god]
The nature of God includes all aspects and characteristics attributed directly to the person of God, possibly including all the omni- aspects (e.g. omniscience), love, hate, persons (e.g. the Trinity) or other attributes.
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that God likes or feels affection toward us?
To some people, and even to Christians at times, it seems difficult to believe that the all-powerful Creator of the Cosmos likes or feels affection for humans personally. This was the topic of a ...
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Why were ousia and hypostasis synonymous in the Nicene Creed?
Why were ousia and hypostasis synonymous in the Nicene Creed?
In the original 325 A.D. Nicene Creed, an anathema is included which has ousia and hypostasis as synonymous. In this case, the Trinity is ...
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How does the concept of "Echad" in Deut 6:4 relate to Divine Simplicity?
Lately I've read some discussions that says the word "echad" ("one" in English) in the Shema refers to a unity more than an absolute singularity. (Here's one example of those ...
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How is god all good if he created evil? [duplicate]
Okay so I've heard the argument that humans are the one who let evil in the world but at one point there was only God before he stated his creation process, so there was all good. God created the laws ...
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How did Arius interpret Colossians 2:9?
Colossians 2:9
HCSB For the entire fullness of God’s
nature dwells bodily in Christ,
NASB: For in Him all the fullness of Deity
dwells in bodily form,
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How do members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints reconcile an unchangeable God with the concept of eternal progression?
Book of Mormon 9:9-10 states,
9 For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?
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Significance of one divine essence/nature
All human beings share a common nature/essence, yet are not one "being", but the 3 persons of the Trinity share a common essence/nature and are one being. I have 3 questions here:
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How does the soul fit in with the existence
My question(s) relates to how the soul fits in with the existence "equation" and I have 2 main questions:
Is the human soul part of your person or your essence, if essence then do humans ...
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Did the Cappadocians teach one or two substances?
"One substance" means that Father and Son are one single substance. That is known as numerical sameness.
But if homoousios in the Nicene Creed is translated as "same substance," it ...
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What does it mean for God to appear physically (theophanies) if he's already omnipresent?
In the Old Testament, God reveals himself numerous times to the prophets in physical forms (Genesis 18:1-2, Exodus 24:9, Numbers 12:8, Isaiah 6:1). But according to scripture, God is omnipresent, ...
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In what respect did Gregory Nazianzen think the pure Nicene faith was adulterated at Constantinople in 381?
In contrast to the previous pro-Homoian emperor Valens, “it was soon clear that Theodosius would pursue a pro-Nicene line.” (LA, 251) In February 380 - only one year after he was declared Augustus and ...
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The "Why" of Creation -- Does the bible explain God's reasoning?
This question is more theoretical than anything, but I wanted to ask the following:
If God is a perfect being, one can safely infer that he has no needs, because of the nature of his existence is ...
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How it is possible to be one God in three persons (Jesus, Holy Ghost, and God the Father)?
1)”Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Deuteronomy 6:4
2)And the Word( Jesus) became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son[a] from the ...
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How does God tolerating evil not make Him evil?
To clarify, I'm not asking why God allows evil. I believe there are sufficient arguments for that. What I would like to know is: how can a righteous God tolerate evil without it affecting His nature ...
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How do Trinitarians respond to the objection that God cannot be a man based on Hosea 11:9?
Hosea 11:9 (ESV):
I will not execute my burning anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and not a man, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath.
Recently someone ...
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Will all glorified children of God take on the title/name of YHWH in the age to come?
God is 1. I think we can all agree with Jesus' most important commandment... the Shema.
I've been told here by the most prudent of Trinitarians, that YHWH is not a being or a person, but instead 3 ...
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How can the Son not know what the Father knows?
Matthew 24:36 (NLT)
Mark 13:32 (NLT)
36 “However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”
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Trinitarian Ontology... What is it? Being vs person vs essence vs _______
I will try to ask this unique question again. How can we answer here without defining simple words used to define God?
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Ontology addresses questions of how entities are ...
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Logical problem in Christology (from a Mormon)
I (a Christian) have been in several groups and see this argument poised here and there. I believe they get it from the Mormon apologist Blake Olster, but I could be mistaken. However, the problem ...
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In what sense was mankind created in the image of a triune essence?
God created mankind in His image.
Gen 1
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ...
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How can I love someone that I do not truly know or understand?
Can you love someone when a big portion of his personality is a mystery or beyond your comprehension?
A picture of God is in my mind, portrayed by the books I've read but it's not the whole picture. I ...
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What is the "original" word of God?
Everything I know about Christianity and Jesus is based on the "original" word of God. But I am having trouble understanding what is meant by "original".
For example, Paul's source ...
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In what way(s) is God the Father a father to God the Son? And in what way(s) is God the Son a son?
Every concept and Truth is from the creative mind of God. This includes what defines a father and a son. By observation, we can know how God defines a father within His design.
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A question about the difference between men and women
Because the Bible teaches that God made men directly in His image but women indirectly (1 Timothy 2:13) and that God transcends all moral judgment (Romans 9:20), what does this imply about the ability ...
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How can God (Jesus) have a secret identity? (Protestant view, including Messianic Jewish, if possible)
I love this passage, but especially the part that I have emphasized:
The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast 11 I saw heaven standing open
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What passages of scripture give the strongest support for Jesus being a separate person than YHWH?
Jesus' most important commandment is the following:
Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, YHWH our Elohim, YHWH is 1. And you shall love YHWH your Elohim with ...
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Would you be able to give up everything you own and follow Jesus? [closed]
Would you be able to give up everything you own and follow Jesus?
Our will is not enough for salvation, instead the Grace of God and the Sacrifice of Jesus and our belief in him.
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Did God change from a wrathful God to a loving God between Old Testament and New Testament?
This question is mainly to the evangelical Christians and Bible believing Christians, who believe that God doesn't change and His nature is Love.
The Old Testament is filled with accounts that ...
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Can God and Unclean Spirits dwell in the same human being at the same time?
We see Jesus describing in Matthew 12:43-45, how an unclean spirit returns to dwell in a person whom it had quit before wandering in the dry land. Jesus adds that the state of the man concerned, ...
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For those who deny the deity of Jesus Christ how do you explain Isaiah seeing Christ/Messiah with his physical eyes at Isaiah 6:1?
Isaiah 6:1, "In the year of King Uzziah's death, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted with the train of His robe filling the temple."
This is confirmed by the Apostle John ...
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If bad things can happen to good people, does this invalidate any of God's attributes or powers? Do we even dare to think of God this way?
From what I understand, the author, a conservative Rabbi, challenges the traditional Biblical view of God’s ‘OMNI’ attributes in his publication. If this is the case, is a God who is less than all-...
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How do Biblical Unitarians understand "the glory of the Father's own self" that Jesus claims he had before the world was?
From what I understand, Biblical Unitarians believe that the pre-incarnational existence of Jesus (as trinitarians propose it) is actually a notional existence in the mind of God. In other words, the ...
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What pronouns make most sense when referencing the Trinity?
The Trinity is 3 persons sharing 1 essence.
They share It.
(Where does the "He", "Him", "Me", "My" come from?)
Jesus uses plural personified pronouns when ...
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Where were Satan and his angels when God devastated the Earth during Noah's Flood?
There is no doubt that angels (both the Holy and the Fallen) had a strong influence in the antediluvian world. Satan was the serpent of Eden. But, during Noah's Flood, where was he, what was he and ...
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Can Christians, in good faith, hold that God is not perfect [i.e. not complete]?
If we define perfection as "complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement" then the answer may that God is not yet perfect because humans have not always responded as God intended. ...
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Does the cosmological argument ignore the Spirituality of God?
In studying Christianity it is inevitable that one comes to the point where the existence of God is compared to the existence of the Universe. This is loosely embraced in the Cosmological argument.
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How can one counter-argue this argument against the existence of God?
Argument:
If God is the Creator, He cannot be perfect. For either God created the world desiring it or not desiring it. If he did not wish it, it implies that he does not have total control over his ...
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Why does God, according to his own words, "create evil"?
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. (Isaiah 45:7) [emphasis mine]
This is consistent with God being called "all-mighty" and ...
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How do non-Trinitarian Christians understand the description of Deity in Isaiah 46:9?
How do non-Trinitarian Christians understand the description of Deity in Isaiah 46:9?
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me (...
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How do Trinitarian Christians understand the description of Deity in Isaiah 46:9?
How do Trinitarian Christians understand the description of Deity in Isaiah 46:9?
Who is speaking in this verse?
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Does the Holy Spirit's procession from the Father and Son infringe on the co-equality of the Trinity?
The following is intended to correlate to classical scholastic terminology, to whit:
Nature = essence, as in "the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit all have the Trinitarian 'nature' of God."
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Could the invisible incomprehensible nature of God be the reason why Satan started a war in heaven? [closed]
Paul wrote a letter to Timothy and revealed an attribute of God previously unknown to man. Paul describes God Almighty as dwelling in a light that cannot be approached and that no one has ever seen ...
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No one has ever seen God or can see God, what were the colors John used to describe Him in Revelation 4:1-5?
The throne room of God is described in Revelation Chapter 4:1-5 in detail.
After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a ...
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Is Partialism a real heresy?
This YouTube video identifies Partialism as a heresy. It states that Partialism is the heresy wherein The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are each described as 1/3 of God. To me, it's a vaguely familiar ...
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Trinitarian Christianity and Numbers 23:19 - Was Jesus a man?
In a discussion about the trinity, I was asked about Numbers. I was completely stumped.
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he
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God's presence among us
I have a simple question: why does God not live with us directly? It seems He is revealing Himself to us only indirectly, as opposed to being with us as Someone we could reach just like another person....
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God was born of Mary - really?
We must always say as well that God was born of Mary. From this accepted answer.
God is spirit and invisible and his face cannot be seen lest we die. Yet apparently it's OK for God to dwell within ...
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What is the difference between the Trinity theory and Modalism?
In Modalism, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are mere "modes" of how the one God interacts with creation. Like an actor on a stage, God could appear sometimes as the Father, other ...
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Is the Holy Spirit the combining of God the Father and God the Son's Spirit's [closed]
Is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Father? It's a pretty simple question, so I don't really know if there is much I can add to the body.
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Can we exalt ourselves above God?
Daniel 11:36 KJV
[36] And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and ...
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